Hello, Yes, Paul had enthusiastically mentioned your work to me already. :-)
Thanks for taking the time to set up that CL, that will help a lot. Now for the dumb/naive question: how would using gRPC-Web help us exactly? What does it make better? I mean, communication between the server and client has not really been much of a difficulty so far, even when using GopherJS, so I'm not sure what the obvious win is here. Also, for ease of discussion, feel free to open a dedicated issue about that in the tracker. Regards, Mathieu On 22 December 2017 at 17:15, Johan Brandhorst <johan.brandho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm the author of the GopherJS gRPC-Web bindings. I was introduced to > Perkeep by Paul Jolly, who is the author of the GopherJS React bindings used > by Perkeep to render some of its frontend UI. I thought since Perkeep has > already invested in GopherJS through this UI it might be interested in > trying out my gRPC-Web bindings to abstract away the communications layer > between the frontend and backend in a familiar gRPC/Protobuf fashion. > > The bindings are built on top of the Improbable gRPC-Web client. It features > support for the Fetch API in supported browsers and automatically downgrades > to XHR where necessary. It implements the gRPC-Web spec. However, the > gRPC-Web spec only mandates support for unary and server-side streaming at > this time. My GopherJS bindings adds support for client-side and > bidirectional streaming with a custom Websocket proxy on top. Please see my > demo website for an example of this. It's only a bandaid until the gRPC-Web > spec adds support for client-side and bidi-streaming. > > I've submitted a small CL with a prototype of what this could look like on a > small scale, to show how the bindings are used and hopefully give an idea of > the impact on the codebase. At this time I only implemented it in one place, > but ideally for something like this the whole communications layer between > the frontend and backend would go through the generated interface. > > https://camlistore-review.googlesource.com/c/camlistore/+/12406 > > Please let me know your thoughts! > > Johan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Camlistore" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to camlistore+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Camlistore" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to camlistore+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
